The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share
People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share
The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
